DPIA

GDPR, IP addresses, and classification – theory and practice

IP addresses can determine jurisdiction - as classically exploited by private and public surveillance agencies, BigTech, other data brokers,  and just about any web site owner. This is well known. As is the fact that such tracking information is key to everyone's commercial efforts to destroy net neutrality and undermine the web. But what does this mean for GDPR compliance? Can it be exploited for classifying individuals' jurisdiction? Should it? What are the pros and cons? Theory (law) I note in passing...

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GDPR: can it impact financial regulation of foreign takeovers?

ABSTRACT: Supervisors are interested in GDPR risks. Financial regulators are interested in financial risks. Often the latter may be derivative of the former. An obvious question arises: at what point might financial regulators become interested in data protection risks? Background: I was asked a question which for various conduct reasons I can't possibly answer in the terms asked. That said, given its resonance with similar issues I've observed in the UK and other contexts, I've reformulated it to something so generic...

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